That is probably an italian pedal. I had a Moreschi Wah-Fuzz (nothing special) that had the same enclosure and the same inductor of your Vox. Bc209's are european trannies, so my guess is probably right.

ik6gpy wrote:That is probably an italian pedal. I had a Moreschi Wah-Fuzz (nothing special) that had the same enclosure and the same inductor of your Vox. Bc209's are european trannies, so my guess is probably right.

My first thought was that it is a Italian Jen made product. But on regular wah pedals, that is usually clearly marked...

Do you think it's possible for it to be a... what's the word... a forgery? "Vintage fogery", but still a forgery? Not an official VOX product? Something that was made with a VOX logo in order to boost the sales?

I like this fuzz. For me, the best vintage Si Fuzz Face that I have ever tried. Cleans very well (extremely well for a Si FF), has a great wall of thick but very musical fuzz, "sharpens" the guitar nicely when you roll off the pickup volume.

As far as I can tell, the fuzz part uses two MPS5172 transistors, and the wah uses two BC209C transistors. It stands to reason, since MPS5172's should have lower hFE (from 150 upwards). However, not a lot of silicone Fuzz Faces use them.

The only problem? A decent amount of hiss. Wouldn't know if that has something to do with the layout, this particular unit or a part that has "drifted".

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So, here we have the fuzz part of the circuit (minus Volume and Fuzz pots and 10uF capacitor mounted on the Fuzz pot), and the schematic. I have modified the Cosmosound Distortion Whau Repeat schematic that you can find on the Effectsdatabase (http://files.effectsdatabase.com/docs/s ... ematic.gif). The values are mostly OK, but the author of that one had a different unit or made a mistake: R2 is 27K and R5 is 2K7 in the VOX, as all of the pictures clearly show.

I cannot check the potentiometers' value, but I expect no problems there.

So, not your typical silicone Fuzz Face, but a variant.

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